Tracking the Dormant Cancer Boneprint
Andreia M Gonçalves1, Ana Luísa Correia1
1Champalimaud Foundation , Champalimaud Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
Cancer Discovery
|April 1, 2026
Abstract
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Cancer cells can repurpose a fundamental bone development program to escape therapy in a dormant state. This finding offers a way to detect cancer dormancy and assess recurrence risk using routine bone scans. See related article by Sreekumar et al., p. 781.


